Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

An ecosystem of K-12 teaching schools where UCLA partners to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.

The work at UCLA Ed&IS is guided by the principles of individual responsibility and social justice, an ethic of caring, and commitment to the communities we serve. Learn more about our mission and values, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our faculty and students, our history and more.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are defining features of UCLA Ed&IS and we embrace them as a source of strength.

Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

The Information Studies Colloquium provides a forum for intellectual exchange and professional networking. All events are free and open to interested members of the community unless otherwise noted.

Information Studies Colloquium

"The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope"

COLLOQUIA 2021-2022

"At the Window’s Edge: Looking for Mundo Meza"

"Intellectual Freedom Is Meaningless Without Social Justice"

"Conservation in the Support of Access for the Johnson Publishing Company Photo Archive"

"Philosophy, Purpose, and Actuality: The History of Library Services and Incarceration in the United States"

"Kenneth Karmiole Lecture in Archival Studies - The Black and Latinx Experience in the Literary Archive Market"

Shannon Mattern - Case Logics: A Catalog of Intellectual Furnishings

Zeb Tortorici - Erotic Archival Imaginaries: Collecting, Archiving, and Destroying Pornography in Mexico

Ellen Gruber Garvey - Breslauer Scholar - Hidden Histories: African American and Women’s Rights Scrapbooks

Amelia Acker - Shifting the Scale: Personal files, Population-level Data, and the Failure of the US National Data Center

David James Hudson - Academic Libraries, Racial Capitalism, and the “Independent Learner"

Aaron Rich - Searching for a Match in the LAPL and Hollywood Studio Picture Collections

The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture is made possible by a generous gift from Information Studies alumnus Kenneth Karmiole. The Karmiole Lecture Fund provides departmental support to bring speakers to campus for greater national and international visibility of the Archival Studies program within UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies.

January 16, 2020 – András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts Library, “Destroying and Preserving Cultural Memory in Time of War: Archives and Libraries in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s”

The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series in Archival Studies:

OTHER LECTURES

This annual lecture series honors Frances Clarke Sayers (1897-1989), distinguished children’s librarian, inspiring master teacher, author, storyteller, and member of the UCLA Department of Library and Information Science faculty from 1960-1989.

February 9, 2020 – Grace Lin, a NY Times bestselling author/ illustrator.